What growth!
Checked out my google analytics dashboard today for the first time in a while. This is what I see:
Now, what I'm not showing here is the actual number of uniques. And I won't because I want to maintain the illusion that I have a wildly popular site.
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Deja vu, science or magic?
Spoiler alert: science. Also, fascinating and another reminder 0f how we are prisoners of our own perception (and it's limitations):
When these cooperating processes get out of sync, we can experience déjà vu, the intense and often disconcerting feeling that a situation is familiar even though it has never happened before. This feeling can occur when a brand-new situation is very similar to other events stored in our memory. For example, a Texas airport may seem vaguely familiar to you even though you have never been to Texas. It is possible the airport is strikingly similar to a single event stored in memory—perhaps you recently saw the airport in a movie or magazine. It is also possible that many memories of visiting similar airports create the sensation that you have been to this one. Déjà vu is a stronger version of this kind of memory error.
via What is going on in the brain when we experience déjà vu?: Scientific American.
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A great way to visualize world population
world-po-LAT-e-LONG_2.png 357×480.
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On Pakistan
A pakistani man reflects on life before and after the flood in Sukkur, Sindh province in Pakistan
"This is God's work. I don't know what we have done. But our country suffers like no other."
He takes a drag on his cigarette and continues.
"Bhai, (brother) look. My life is one hardship after another. No money, no home, no life ... and that was before the floods! What happens now is simply beyond me."
via All the world's ills in one country | Al Jazeera Blogs.
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Cars will be able to eat their own poop to keep going
At least that's how I read it...
Vanadium nitrogenase, an enzyme that normally produces ammonia from nitrogen gas, can also convert carbon monoxide (CO), a common industrial byproduct, into propane, the blue-flamed gas found on stoves across America.
While scientists caution the research is still at an early stage, they say that this study could eventually lead to new, environmentally friendly ways to produce fuel -- and eventually gasoline -- from thin air.
via Gasoline from Thin Air? : Discovery News.
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More than 70 countries make being gay a crime
Horrible. Unfortunately stats and stories like this serve as fodder for anti-gay marriage activists as evidence how much worse it could be. I think it's important to keep in mind that there are lots of things that are *much* worse in other places but we shouldn't be lowering our standards because of it.
John Bosco Nyombi, who now has leave to remain in the UK, was beaten and bundled on to a plane to Kampala by security staff working for the Home Office in 2008. The Independent on Sunday reported last year that High Court judges ruled his removal had been "manifestly unlawful", obliging the Home Office to bring him back to Britain. The 39-year-old fled to the UK in 2001, because being gay in Uganda can result in life imprisonment. More than one gay inmate has been killed while serving time in Ugandan prison
via More than 70 countries make being gay a crime - World Politics, World - The Independent.
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